Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Happiness
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
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A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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